. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE SLAUGHTER FIELD AT VMR OAKS Over this ground the fiercest fightingof the two days battle took phice, onMay 31, 1862. Some 400 soldierswere buried here, w here they fell, andtheir hastily dug graves appear plain-ly in the picture. In the redoubt seenjust beyond the two houses was thecenter of the Federal line of battle,equi-distant, about a mile and a half,from both Seven Pines and Fair entrenchments near these farmdwellings were begun on May 28th byCaseys Division, 4th Corps. Therewas not time to finish them beforethe
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE SLAUGHTER FIELD AT VMR OAKS Over this ground the fiercest fightingof the two days battle took phice, onMay 31, 1862. Some 400 soldierswere buried here, w here they fell, andtheir hastily dug graves appear plain-ly in the picture. In the redoubt seenjust beyond the two houses was thecenter of the Federal line of battle,equi-distant, about a mile and a half,from both Seven Pines and Fair entrenchments near these farmdwellings were begun on May 28th byCaseys Division, 4th Corps. Therewas not time to finish them beforethe Confederate attack opened thebattle, and the artillery of CaseysDivision was hurriedly placed in po-sition behind the incomplete THE UNFINISHED REDOUBT In the smaller j)ieture we see the insideof the redoubt at the Irll l,,,lof the picture above. Ihe scih- is jiislbefore the battle and pii k^ ;niil .\-cls were still busy llinnviii:; up theenibaiikinents lo si nii^l li. ii this cen-ter of the Fecicnil clilVns,. ( ar-tillery was being hurriedly brought the background General SicklesBrigaile appears drawn up in line ofl)attle. Wlien the (onfcilerales firstadvanced artillery did tellingwork, handsomely repelling the atlackearly in the afteriidon of May ; in the day ((infederatc sharp-shooters from vantage points in neigh-boring trees began to pick off theofficers and the gunners and the re-doubt had to be relin(|uished. Theabandoned guns were turned againstthe retreating Federals.
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